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The most stunning scene in Asif Kapadia's painful, extraordinary Amy — the new documentary tracking the rise and tragic fall of gone-too-soon pop powerhouse Amy Winehouse — is what Kapadia calls a "beautiful accident."

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We hold this truth to be self-evident: Busta Rhymes, Guys and Dolls, Nirvana, and the Founding Fathers of the United States of America have one man in common, and that man is a rapper named Daveed Diggs.

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I, Hilary Hughes, hath no chill. Zero. Zilch. Nada. The chill I did have was swiftly taken away from me in a velvety flourish by Mariah Carey last night, and I am a shell of an "Oh Santa!"-bleating human for it. There's no point in being cool about it or......

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Sharon Jones is no stranger to a standing ovation. And on September 11, in a packed movie theater in downtown Toronto, the crowd, though still on its feet, was left stunned and silent once she took the microphone. But, on this night, their reaction had as much to do with......

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Back in the glory days of the Sunset Strip, a gang of notorious rock 'n' roll talents convened at one of its most infamous dives in secret — and Alice Cooper has assembled a serious supergroup to sing all about it.

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"There is nothing [in my book] that is going to produce sexual arousal in anyone, I don't believe — unless you're really turned on by good prose." Robert Christgau is over talking about sex. More specifically, he's over talking about the scenes in his memoir, Going Into the City: Portrait......

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When I initially requested review tickets for all eight of Mariah Carey's holiday concerts, I didn't think that the ask would go through just based on the sheer absurdity of it: Who would make the same reviewer sit through eight rounds of the same program in a two-week timeframe? Who......